IN January, 1946, 50,000 airmen serving in the Middle East and Far East went on strike in what a recent Channel 4 programme called "the greatest single act of defiance in the history of the British armed forces".

I am writing a book about those events and have been studying official records, newspaper reports and the like, but I also need to hear from men who took part.

I am therefore appealing to any readers who were involved in the strikes either to write to me about their experiences, or to send me their names and addresses so that I can contact them.

David Duncan,

37 Mandale Road

Middlesbrough

TS5 8AE

Tel: 01642 819135